Unions Are Good

Pros

Cons

Unions lead to better worker benefits, such as health-care.

Unions help ensure equality in the workplace, if you're a Union Electrician it doesn't matter what your race, gender or sexual orientation is, you are paid equal to all other union electricians of the same skill level.

Unions ensure that the workers are not abused by their employer.

Unions prevent workplace accidents.

Unions can be organized democratically and need not promote conformism. A strong trade union encourages a diversity of viewpoints as well as education that is empirically based regarding realities corresponding to workers' needs.

Unions provide better training for their employees, which leads to better quality workmanship.

Unions inhibit productivity.

Hard work is not rewarded by unions. Everyone gets the same pay regardless of skill or effort.

Unions force workers to conform to and adopt their views.

Unions take money from the workers.

Unions were formed to protect against unscrupulous private employers. Assuming the employer in the public sector is 'the people' unionising in the public sector is self defeating. Especially the workforces that manage public goods like energy, water, transportation and health should not be allowed to unionise, so as to safeguard from the potential extortion of the general public by a small group of individuals.